The January 6th Hearings: Criminal Evidence Tracker - Trump Subpoena Edition
he January 6th Select Committee’s public hearings have now culminated in a subpoena to former President Donald Trump. It is historic: although current and former presidents have been subpoenaed before, this has never happened in the face of such extraordinary evidence of presidential criminality. The text of the subpoena and cover letter read like a bill of particulars, and close observers know that its allegations are carefully written to track the evidentiary record produced by the committee’s work including the last two hearings.
In this latest edition of our January 6th Hearings Criminal Evidence Tracker, we add the evidence set forth in the eighth and ninth hearings to our prior inventory. The eighth hearing focused almost entirely on Trump’s failure to act to protect the Capitol in the hours following his rally. The ninth hearing was more broad ranging, providing key details about Trump’s intent and knowledge both before January 6 and on the day itself—as well as presenting some of the more damning evidence from a recently obtained cache of records from the United States Secret Service.
With this update of the tracker we have now cataloged the substantial new evidence all nine hearings have derived in support of the subpoena—and of possible criminal charges against Trump. The tracker is available below and as a PDF.
The Eighth Hearing
The committee’s eighth hearing featured a wide range of witnesses, both live and in recorded depositions and interviews. Those witnesses provided a striking account of Trump’s recalcitrance to make a public statement telling his supporters to leave the Capitol. That account is made all the more remarkable by evidence the committee presented that many close associates and others were imploring him to act. Many of those pleas were made to Trump’s Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows. Others were communicated to Trump directly.
https://www.justsecurity.org/83792/january-6th-hearings-criminal-evidence-tracker-trump-subpoena-edition/
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